On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:08:16 -0500 "Don C. Myers" <donmy...@myersfarm.com> dijo:
>Hi, > >I have been following this thread, and quite honestly, I have never >seen this issue. I've been using LibreOffice since the first 3.3.x >version, through all of the updates to presently 3.4.5. I have it on >at least 9 machines. All of the machines have been upgraded through >Ubuntu 10.10. 11.04, and presently 11.10. I always run the version >directly downloaded from LibreOffice, and not the repository version >from Ubuntu. In all versions of LibreOffice on all versions of Ubuntu >listed above. when I click print, the default printer for the system >is always selected. None of these machines are networked together. >They are in 5 different physical locations. On the main tool bar in >LibreOffice, I always replace the Print File Directly icon with the >Print File icon. That is just my preference. When I click the Print >icon, whatever printer is the default on that particular system always >shows as the default printer that LibreOffice will print to. In Ubuntu >11.04 and 11.10 I am using the Unity desktop. The only thing I can >think of is there is some sort of a conflict between Fedora 16 and >LibreOffice that is preventing the default printer for your system >from being the default for LibreOffice. > >Don > >On 01/24/2012 12:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500 >> webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmas...@krackedpress.com> >> dijo: >> >>> I am sorry you are not getting any help. I wonder it it is an >>> isolated issue for Fedora 16. If people have not see this happen >>> before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it. >>> >>> So is there any issues with printing/exporting the file to PDF then >>> printing it out to your printer? Do your file require Postscript >>> printing instead of HP default printer language? >> Exporting to PDF and then printing with Okular, Evince, Adobe Reader, >> or other PDF viewers works fine. But that is more work than just >> clicking the Print button, or even wading through the Print dialog >> box tabs and menus to change the default behavior. >> >> The problem is that there is a new "PDF" setting in the print dialog >> box. It used to be on OOo that the default was to use whatever print >> options were set according to the driver you selected in CUPS >> (Postscript, Gutenprint, PCL, etc.). Now you have to go into General >> tab> Properties> Device> tab> Printer language type> where it >> gives you the options: >> >> *PDF >> Postscript - level from driver >> Postscript - level 1 >> Postscript - level 2 >> Postscript - level 3 >> >> And it is set to PDF by default. And the PDF option is broken - it >> does not use the font metrics built into the font, so characters >> print as though the font were a monospaced font. A word like "limit" >> comes out looking a bit like "l i mi t" (except that the second i is >> actually smashed into the m). Otherwise the printing is fine. And it >> uses the font metrics correctly if I manually select Postscript - >> level from driver, or Postscript level 1 or 2. It's just that the >> option is buried several clicks deep in the Print dialog box and I >> keep forgetting to change it from the default "PDF." Also, it does >> this with all fonts. >> >> I don't know why there is a "PDF" option in the Device tab, because >> only a handful of very expensive late model high end printers >> actually have the new Adobe PDF print engine built in. I'm talking >> printers costing $5,000 and up. >> >> If I write the document with Abiword, Kword, or any other word >> processor, it prints fine just by clicking the Print button. >> >> I wish I could post screen shots of the Device tab in the Print >> dialog box so you could see exactly what I am talking about. Even >> better would be if I could add screen shots of the Print dialog box >> from OOo where this problem did not exist. But OOo is not currently >> installed on my computer, having switched to Libreoffice after >> upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16. >> >> I just need to find a setting to change the default from "PDF" to >> "Postscript - level from driver" or "Postscript - level 2." It would >> be OK if Libreoffice would just remember the setting from last time I >> printed, but with each new document it has to be set again. If it's >> hard coded I'm probably going to have to uninstall Libreoffice and go >> back to OOo because I'm tired of wasting time, paper and toner every >> time I forget to change it. I guess I still haven't made it clear. Libreoffice DOES automatically select the printer which is set as the default in CUPS, which is a Laserjet 4M+. That is not the problem. The incorrect default setting is deep in the Print dialog box, not in the first window that opens when you select File > Print or do Ctrl-p. To see what I am talking about open the Print dialog box, which will open displaying the General tab, then click on the Properties buton (for the printer). This will open a child window with the default tab "Paper" selected. Click on the "Device" tab, and then on the "Printer language tab" button. That is where I see it set to PDF by default. I have to change it to one of the Postscript options to get correct printing. Sorry for the confusion. :( -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
